History ComicBook / TheUltraverse

* Prequel: ''Ultraverse Year Zero: The Squad'' details Hardcase's beginnings as an Ultra and a hero, [[spoiler:the death of two of his teammmates, and his LoveInterest falling into a coma.]]

** Issues #10-11 happen almost immediately after the previous arc: the team is task by their "janitor" to clean up the place after, then [[spoiler:his monstrous-shaped brother is accidentaly released then contained]]. At the end of the issue, they learn of an invasion in New York and go to help the New Exiles ("Maximum Desctruction crossover", which crosses with issue #12).

* AlternateUniverse: In the one-shot ''Hulk Vs. Prime'', the boy is trapped in the Marvel Universe and tries to find his aunt's apartment in New York, only to meet a tenant in Marvel's version of New York.

* EvilSorcerer: Boneyard
* TheGambler: Casino

** In the Marvel-rebooted ''Ultraforce'''s second arc, "Smoke and Bones", the teams deals with the political assassination of a U.S. senator that possibly involves Aladdin and an Ultra. During the story, someone goes to ''great lengths'' to stop any investigation.

** Their shady organization is Aladdin, so named because of their supercomputer, "Genie". They seal is also a genie's lamp.

* GovernmentConspiracy: Aladdin, so named because of their supercomputer, "Genie".

** "Freex" - a group of outcast Ultras (or "freaks").

** Phade - a ultra with the power to alter her body's density, which she can also use to move through walls.

* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Lament, one of the Ultraforce's new members introduced in the Marvel-rebooted series, is a Native Amrican woman. She is always barefoot, has a vertical blue tattoo over her right eye, and wears a feather earring and a light brown leather jacket.

* HotWitch: Mantra

* TwoGirlsToATeam: ''The Strangers'''s founding members are Lady Killer (Elena La Brava) and a female pleasure robot Electrocute, who developed a conscience. Later, they are joined by an alien sorceress named Yrial.

** A last crossover before their ultimate cancelation was ''Maximum Destruction'', which ran through ''All-New Exiles'' #11 (their last issue), ''Ultraforce'' #12 and ''Ultimate Universe'' #2.

* SealedEvilInADuel: [[spoiler:In the last few issues of the Marvel-rebooted ''Ultraforce'', their leader Hardcase comes back from somewhere else. Their reunion is short-lived, as they team fight Demonseed. At the end of the final issue, Maxis creates a portal to a Limbo-like dimension, and Hardcase makes a TakingYouWithMe ploy against Demonseed. In the Limbo dimension, the duo are forever locked in combat, falling eternally into darkness.]]

* UnresolvedSexualTension: During the ''All-New Exiles'' phase, Amber Hunt and Juggernaut were quite close to each other. Another possible couple were 'Strike and Sienna Blaze, who had their fair share of mutual flirting, but, with her return to the Marvel Universe, the relationship did not get of the ground.

* {{Transplant}}: After the ''Black September'' event, three characters from the main Marvel Universe were carried over to the Ultraverse: Avenger Black Knight (Dane Whitman), C-list mutants Reaper and Sienna Blaze, and X-Men character The Juggernaut.

* MistakenForPedophile: In his first series, Prime (in his darker and edgier 90s incarnation) is accosted by some reporters about his strange interest in "teenage boys" and how one person found a teen's clothes in one backpack - first, his true identity ''is'' a teenager; second, the clothes are his, when he changed into his older alter ego.

* {{Sexbot}}: Elctrocute of The Strangers was originally constructed as this. The 'Jumpstart' event that gave the other Strangers their powers granted her sentience and allowed her to transcend her programming.

* Transplant: After the ''Black September'' event, three characters from the main Marvel Universe were carried over to the Ultraverse: Avenger Black Knight (Dane Whitman), C-list mutants Reaper and Sienna Blaze, and X-Men character The Juggernaut.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Being from the 1990s, Kevin Green, during an arc in his first series, fashions a new "badass" look for his alter ego Prime, which he calls "Rogue Prime": a mullet-wearing man with a spiked diadem, a five o'clock shadow, a [[RuggedScar scar near his right eye]], spiked boots and a cluster of [[ChainedByFashion chains around his waist]].

* OlderAlterEgo: Prime; Elven

* ScaryScarecrows: Lord Pumpkin

* SexierAlterEgo: Prime; Elven.

* Transplant: After the ''Black September'' event, three characters from the main Marvel Universe were carried over to the Ultraverse: Avenger Black Knight (Dane Whitman) and C-list mutants Reaper and Sienna Blaze.